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wILLIAM F. HUTCHINSON, on NEW YORK, N. Y.

BOXING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 569,133, dated October6, 1896.

Application filed October 25,1895. Serial No. 566,817. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM F. HUTCHIN- SON, of New York, in the countyand State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Boxing-Machines, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

My invention relates to improvements in boxing-machines, and especiallyto machines which are adapted for use in placing filled match-trays intheir appropriate shucks, although the machine may be used for placingtogether the shucks and trays without regard to thecharacter of thematerial held in the latter.

The object of my invention is to produce a comparatively simple machinewhich enables the shucks to be held in mass at one end of the machine,the filled trays to be fed upon the machine at another point, and thetwo parts readily and automatically assembled, each shuck being placedover its corresponding tray.

A further object of my invention is to produce means for automaticallydischarging the assembled shucks and tray in such a manner that thecompleted and filled boxes may be conveniently packed.

To these ends my invention consists of certain features of constructionand combinations of parts, which will be hereinafter described andclaimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar figures of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a broken side elevation of the machine embodying myinvention. Fig. 2 is a broken side elevation with the shuck-shapingspout in longitudinal section, the view showing the tray-holder in theact of receiving a tray. Fig. 3 is a detail side elevation showing themechanism in position to insert a tray in its shuck. Fig. 4 is alongitudinal section of the machine, showing a tray held in its holderwith its abutment-pawl riding on it and with the holder ready to receivethe shuck for the tray. Fig. 5 is a broken detail plan of thetray-carrying chain. Fig. 6 is a side elevation of one of thechain-links. Fig. 7

is an enlarged detail section on the line 7 7 of Fig. 4:, and shows theconstruction of the trayholder. Fig. 8 is an inside elevation of oneholding-arm of the tray-holder. Fig. 9 is a detail plan view of one ofsaid arms. Fig. 10 is a plan View of the machine. Fig. 11 is .anenlarged sectional plan of the shuck-shaping spout. Fig. 12 is anenlarged detail View of the tray-abutment pawl and its support, and Fig.13 is a side elevation of the said pawl and support.

The machine is provided with a suitable frame 10, near one end of whichare journaled sprocket-wheels 11 and 12, these being on the samehorizontal plane and carrying "a chain 13, the links of which haveoutward-turned bends 14 at one end, and the distance between theseprojecting bends or lugs is just sufficient to accommodate a tray 15, asshown clearly in Fig. 4. The trays 15, which are to be inserted inshucks or wrappers, are fed in any suitable manner upon the upper sideof the chain-belt 13 and pass between parallel guides 16, which arebridged over above the sprocket-wheel12, so as to form a guide for atray 15, which can thus be held so as to project from the guide 17, asshown in Fig. 4., this projecting end being adapted to enter thetray-holder 18, which slides back and forth on the machine, ashereinafter described.

The tray-holder 18 has opposite holdingarms 19, which are parallel witheach other and which are U-shaped in cross-section, as shown clearly inFig. 7, so that each arm is adapted to receive one edge of a tray. The

rear ends of these arms terminate in project- 7 ing or spreading ends20, so that a tray can readily enter them, and the opposite ends of thearms terminate in inturned projections or tongues 21, which permit awrapper to be pushed easily onto the holder; but the ends aresufficiently springy and have enough outward tension to prevent thewrapper from being too easily slipped oif.

The arms 18 are supported on a suitable bracket 22, which is fastened toa slide-plate 23, moving in grooves 24 (see Fig. 4) on the inner sidesof the frame 10, and the slide-plate is moved by an arm 25, which slidesin the slot 26 (see Fig. 1) in the machine-frame, the

outer end of the arm hanging down at the side of the machine to connectwith actuatin g mechanism, which will be hereinafter described. V

The holder is alternately moved backward and forward, and when it movesback itreceives a tray from the guide 17 and then moves forward beneatha pawl'27, which rides over the tray 15 and between the arms 19 andeventually falls behind the tray, so as to push the tray out of theholder as the latter is forced back, which operation will be fullydescribed later.

The pawl 27 is hung on a rod 28, which is supported in brackets 29, andthe pawl is arms 19, as shown clearly in Fig. 3.

normally moved downward by a spring 27, (see Fig. 12,) although it wouldprobably move by gravity. The pawl is prevented from turning back toofar by a pin 30, which is secured to the rod 28, and engages a pin orstud 31 on one of the brackets 29, as shown in Figs. 12 and 13.

The'shucks 32 are placed one above the other in a hopper 33 at the rearend of the machine, and this hopper has at the bottom a shaping-spout34, which extends toward the holder 18 and lies parallel with the bed ofthe machine. The shucks, as is well known, are generally flattened outwhen they are made, so that they are delivered in a flattened shape intothe hopper; but in order that they may be straightened up intoarelativerectangular shape the spout 34 has'side walls 35, which converge towardthe holder 18, while the upper wall 36 of the spout rises as itapproaches the holder. Consequently, as a wrapper is carried out throughthe spout 34 it is gradually squeezed into shape. The shucks are carriedout through the spout one by one by means of a reciprocating carriage 37which slides beneath the spout and hopper, and which has at its innerend a ledge 38 of a size to receive a shuck. It will be seen, then, thatwhen the carriage moves outward the ledge 38 is brought beneath thehopper 33 and the bottom shuck drops a little and is engaged by theledge, so that the return movement of the carriage takes the shuck backthrough the spout and delivers it upon the holding-arms 19, as will moreclearly appear below.

The operation of the essential parts of the machine, whichhave beendescribed above, is as follows: Trays 15 are fed forward on the chainbelt 13, and the first tray projects from the guide 17. At this pointthe holder 18 moves backward and the said tray is caught by the arms 19of the holder, while at the same. instant the carriage 37 moves outwardat the opposite end of the machine and receives ashuck 32. The carriage37 and holder 18 then approach each other, the tray 15 being carriedbeneath the pawl 27 and the shuck 32 being pushed on over the holding-The carriage 37 and holder 18 again separate to receive a new wrapperand tray, and'on the re verse movement of the holder 18 the pawl 27,

which has dropped behind the tray 15, causes the said tray to be pushedinto thewrapper, and when the wrapper is struck by the pawl the trayispushed home and both wrapper and tray are carried from the holder 18 anddropped below.

It will be understood that a diversity of mechanism may be employed foractuating the above-described parts in the manner indicated, but I haveshown means for carrying through the above operations.

The filled wrappers, as discharged from the holder 18, are caught on anendless belt 41, which is carried by pulleys 42, (see Fig. 3,) and theinner pulley 42 is carried by a shaft 43, which is driven by a pulley 44and belt 45, the latter being in turn driven by a pulley 46 on thedriving-shaft 47, and this may be driven in any convenient way. Thedriving-shaft 47 has at one end a crank 48, (see Fig. 10,) which at itsouter end is doubled and returned upon itself to formthe crankarm 49,which is longer than the crank 48, and which thus forms a double crank.The crank 48 connects by a pitman 50 with the arm 25, above referred to,while the free end of the arm 49 connects by a pitman 51 with an arm 39,which slides in a slot 40 and carries the carriage 37. The arm 25connects by a pitman 52 with a lever 53, which is hung on the shaft ofthe sprocket-wheel 12, and a pawl 54 on this lever engages aratchet-wheel 55 on the sprocket-wheel 12, and so at each stroke of theholder 18 the arm 25, actuating the lever 53, causes the pawl 54 to turnthe ratchet-wheel the distance of one tooth, which is timed to carryforward the chain 13 the length of the tray 15. v

It will be seen from the above that at each revolution of thedriving-shaft the pitmen 50 and 51 will be moved so as to impart thenecessary to-and-fro movement to the holder 18 and the carriage 37, andthat the right move-- ment will be given to the feeding mechanism bymeans of the ratchet connection described, so that the whole operationwill be automaticallyand properly timed.

Having thus described my invention, -I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- 1. A boxing-machine, comprising a reciprocatingtray-carrying holder, means for'delivering a tray to the holder at oneend of its stroke, means for delivering a shuck upon the holder at theopposite end of its stroke, and mechanism to force the tray intothe-shuck and remove the latter, substantially as described.

2. A boxing-machine, comprising av traycarrying holder andshuck-carriage movable back and forth in relation to each other, thetray-holder being adapted to receive a shuck at one end, and thecarriage being arranged to deliver the shuck upon the holder, and

mechanism to force the tray into the shuck and remove the latter,substantially as described.

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3. A boxing-machine, comprising a traycarrying holder andshtick-carriage movable back and forth in relation to each other, the,

holder being adapted to receive a tray at one end of'its stroke, and thecarriage being arranged to deliver a shuck upon the holder on the returnstroke of the latter, and automatic feeding devices to supply the holderwith trays and the shtick-carriage with shucks, substantially asdescribed.

4. The combination with atray-holder having one end shaped to engage ashuck, of the shuck-carriage, means for delivering shucks to thecarriage, and the shaping-spout having inclined side and top walls,substantially as described.

5. The combination with the hopper having a discharge-spout withinclined walls, of the shtick-carriage reciprocating beneath the spoutand hopper, and mechanism for entering a tray in the shuck as it leavesthe spout, substantially as described.

6. In aboXing-machine, the combination of the reciprocating tray-holder,means for delivering a shuck over the holder at one end of its stroke,and the swinging abutment-pawl hanging above the holder and in the pathof 8. The combination with the reciprocating I tray-holder andmechanismfor placing the tray in the shuck, of a guide and feed mechanism to feedtrays to the tray-holder, said guide and feed mechanism comprising atraveling chain with abutments thereon, mechanism for imparting anintermittent movement to the chain, andabridge extending across thechain top, substantially as described.

NVILLIAM F. HUTOHINSON. Witnesses:

WILLIAM D. PECK, WARREN B. HUTOHINSON.

